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Talker's MagazineThe quirky talk radio trade mag. Check the Talk Radio Research Project- it's not very scientific, but places on the top 15 talkers list (scroll down to Talk Radio Audiences By Size)) are as hotly contested as Emmys (and mean just about as much).

The AdvocateNo, not THAT Advocate... it's the Northwest Progressive Institute's Official Blog.

Media MattersDocumentation of right-wing media in video, audio and text.

Orcinushome of David Neiwert, freelance investigative journalist and author who writes extensively about far-right hate groups

Hominid Views"People, politics, science, and whatnot"
Darryl is a statistician who fights imperialism with empiricism, gives good links and wry commentary.

Jesus' General An 11 on the Manly Scale of Absolute Gender, a 12 on the Heavenly Scale of the 10 Commandments and a 6 on the earthly scale of the Immaculately Groomed.

Irrational Public Radio "informs, challenges, soothes and/or berates, and does so with a pleasing vocal cadence and unmatched enunciation. When you listen to IPR, integrity washes over you like lava, with the pleasing familiarity of a medium-roast coffee and a sensible muffin."

The Moderate VoiceThe voice of reason in the age of Obama, and the politics of the far-middle.

News Hounds Dogged dogging of Fox News by a team who seems to watch every minute of the cable channel so you don't have to.

HistoryLinkFun to read and free encyclopedia of Washington State history. Founded by the late Walt Crowley, it's an indispensable tool and entertainment source for history wonks and surfers alike.

right-wing blogs we like

The Reagan WingHearin lies the real heart of Washington State Republicans. Doug Parris runs this red-meat social conservative group site which bars no holds when it comes to saying who they are and who they're not; what they believe and what they don't; who their friends are and where the rest of the Republicans can go. Well-written, and flaming.

Overly paid, fatuous hosts parroting fear mongering while the establishment of the right remains rudderless due to in-fighting from the grassroots and with an extremely wealthy candidate, oblivious to mainstream America making Chevy Chase's SNL Ford character look ready for the job.

voter fraud found at country club

Rich chose the week of the GOP convention to chronicle his findings in the NY Times piece... "On the sixth day, I listened to Glenn Beck, and I saw that he was good. Or if not exactly good, then honest-to-God funny."

"I had tuned in as part of a thought experiment then entering its final
lap: an attempt to put myself in the Republican brain by spending a
solid week listening to, watching, reading, surfing, and otherwise
gorging on conservative media. As would also be true of an overdose of
liberal media, it was lulling me into a stupor, and I was desperate for a
jolt. Beck provided exactly that, in the form of comedy, and to my
astonishment, I found myself laughing out loud—with him, not at him."

Beck provides more comic relief for Rich: "In Beck’s fantasy, someone in the Romney camp did have qualms about
letting an 82-year-old geezer vamp with an empty chair. But the skeptic
had been overruled by a higher-up saying just “three magic words”—to
wit, “It’s Clint Eastwood!” As in: “What could possibly go wrong? It’s Clint Eastwood!” Beck kept repeating this scenario with ever-more-manic variations, turning “It’s Clint Eastwood!” into a burlesque tagline akin to Gene Wilder’s crazed “No way out!” in The Producers
(a Beck favorite). Only at the end of his shtick did politics intrude.
Unless the person who said the three magic words “now has been
terminated,” Beck said, he wouldn’t “trust Mitt Romney’s ability to run
the country.” As he explained, it was only a small step from “It’s Clint Eastwood!” to “It’s Ben Bernanke!”—and the next thing you know, a Romney administration would be extending the term of the despised Fed chairman. He had a point."

Rich was referring to the week that was in Tampa with Clint Eastwood rambling to an empty chair. Said Beck, " “I love Clint Eastwood”—but confessed he’d found the performance “painful to look at.”

Rich feels empathy for the foot soldiers of the conservative movement, even before this week's, all but concession speech from the establishments hope and no-spare change pick of Willard Romney. Rich continues, "... those in the right’s base, who are often sold out by the GOP
Establishment, and admiration for a number of writers, particularly the
youngish conservative commentators at sites like the American Conservative and National Review Online
whose writing is as sharp as any on the left (and sometimes as
unforgiving of Republican follies) but who are mostly unknown beyond
their own ideological circles."

The praise for R$money from the inner circle of conservative writers and hosts was faint but dutiful: "In The Weekly Standard,Andrew Ferguson saluted Mitt
as “a good guy” only after cataloging his “breathless, Eddie Attaboy
delivery, that half-smile of pitying condescension in debates or
interviews when someone disagrees with him, the Ken-doll mannerisms, his
wanton use of the word ‘gosh.’ ” Mike Huckabee tried for a homespun maxim: “If you’ve just been diagnosed with a brain tumor, you honestly don’t care if your neurosurgeon is a jerk.”

Never mind the fact that Bush' 41/43 were not invited to the confab in Tampa, nor was the last candidate for the WH treated any more than as a country cousin, "John ­McCain was as welcome in Tampa as Banquo’s ghost; even Bill
O’Reilly’s much-hyped prime-time interview with the 2008 standard-bearer
was abruptly truncated for a generic podium speech by Romney campaign
chairman Bob White." Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford were non-mentions but Reagan re-digitized for the Jumbo-Tron was brought out after the 2008 edition nearly shredded was remastered.

After a Monday afternoon of Chris Matthews lobbing a stink-bomb at GOP Chair Reince Priebus, over a birther joke Romney made, FOX news permanently bolted cameras at the delegations of Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, American
Samoa, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, or the District of Columbia, all
of which, preposterously enough, were given prime seats near the stage in Tampa.

Sez Rich, "Even now, the GOP seems oblivious to the fact that its alliance with
Donald Trump, the nation’s preeminent birther, is enough to cancel out
any serious outreach to African-Americans in 2012. Were it not for
Isaac, Trump might have hijacked the convention on opening night."

Speaking of celebrity, Frank's column also points out how the right uses the has beens of late 80's SNL members Dennis Miller, Victoria Jackson and Jon Lovitz , while Chris Christie's adoration of rocker Bruce Springsteen is not reciprocated.

Beck's disaffection continues with the establishment right, " The morning after opening night in Tampa, Beck fretted aloud about
whether anyone had been watching at all. He was equally nettled by a
study showing that conservatives “just don’t do viral stuff.” Saying
that the right doesn’t share speeches like Ann Romney’s with friends and
that the left does, he asked, “Are we even in the game at this point?” I
thought Beck was being histrionic, but my own anecdotal experience that
week bore him out: The Twitter feeds I followed of conservative voices,
pundits, and institutions generated far less volume and snark than
their liberal counterparts. “Got an awesome hug from the convention info
lady at the terminal,” read an all-too-typical missive from one of the more prolific conservative tweeters, Jonah Goldberg."

free-loading states for Romney

Rush Limbaugh infuriated at the grassroots movement of the right: At the start of convention week, he replayed a Bill Kristol admonition, delivered the day before on Fox News Sunday,
that the convention had to advance a positive agenda. “So what he’s
basically saying is, ‘Don’t make the convention about bashing Obama,’ ” was how Limbaugh translated Kristol’s advice.
He was having none of it. “I think it’s been a trick the Democrats have
used for decades, and I’m stunned that our side keeps falling for it,”
he said. “The trick is: ‘These Independents don’t like criticism! They
don’t like raised voices! They don’t like partisanship! It makes them
nervous. And whenever the Republicans get critical of President Obama,
these Independents just run right back to the Democrats and vote for
them.’ I don’t believe that for a minute!”

Micheal Savage was sickened by “the eunuchs in the Republican Party,”. Says Savage (570 the new and more KKKVI) "..“Just what we need … a man who may be president, that he does his own laundry!” after Ann "you people" Romney claimed her husband is just like us going down to the wash house.

"Now you understand why the tea-party movement arose, and now you
understand why they haven’t even mentioned the tea party … I have no
idea what they stand for.” And he was still just warming up. “The
Republicans have just dug their own grave,” Savage continued. “Unless Romney
gets up there like a man and stops acting like a pocketbook carrier for
his wife, he is finished.”

Another bile-filed response came from Mark Levin, "Obama is “a nasty, leftist ideologue” and to say otherwise is to
emasculate the Republicans’ case against him. “Do we really have to be
driven by focus groups, by Frank Luntz?” he asked. Noting the lousy
convention ratings, he added: “If we’re trying to reach out to Reagan
Democrats and Independents, apparently a lot of them weren’t watching.”
Soon he was taking a call from a Republican election officer who was so
put off by the convention that he said he would vote for Romney but not
go door-to-door to corral others to do so."

Rich points out that the overplaying of the Eastwood video may have done more harm than good by downplaying the anger of the those behind the scenes while relying on “more in sorrow than anger” political strategy.

Frank Rich sums up his adventure in fear and loathing media: "That anger is certain to rage long past Election Day, and if I learned
anything in my week strolling around the conservative mind, it was that
anyone who sticks to an exclusive diet of lame-stream media is missing
the news."

April 17, 2012

The wait is over! Those In The Know over at Talkers Magazine have released their Heavy Hundred list for 2012. While most of the results are predictable, there are a few new faces that are sure to annoy some of you. All of them have included bios that read as if their sainted mothers wrote them. It is a good mix of terrestial and satellite stations, men and women. This year there are a few more liberal voices on the list as well.

While we won't list all of them here--you can see the entire list at the link above--we will go through the list and show you a few of them. If you disagree, take it up with Talker's Magazine.

July 22, 2011

"By the way, the group that is taking credit for this - guess what, it’s not - sorry to disappoint you people out there who hate Christianity, it’s not Christian group, it’s not a secular group, it’s not a left-wing group, it’s not a right-wing group, it's Ansar al-Jihad al-Alami." ~~ Michael Medved, July 22, 2011; 1st hour.

Before Norweigan authorities had carefully avoided any conclusions about the perpetrators, Medved jumped to his favorite conclusion, saying the attacks in Oslo were assuredly from jihadists. Boze later agreed, saying Norweigans (with whom he's quite familiar- coming, as he does, from Stanwood WA) are naïve, and politically correct.

(photo: socialized medicine is really a bailout for the sexually bewildered)

Medved is a Yaleman, the self-described Wizard of Politics & Pop Culture, and known for his deep academic, and religious intonations. We did some of our own Extensive Research, and Holy Shit it's true... it says so right here on the Internets!

The partially-baked, Falwellian, Pentacostal Liberty Alliance Council put out a press release that said another reason to be ascared of ObamaCare is because it will "likely mandate free "sex-change surgeries."

Michael regurgitated it, so it must be true.(The Liberty Counsel, closely associated with the late Jerry Falwell's deeply disregarded Liberty University, is best known for threatening legal action against a public library for awarding certificates to kids reading Harry Potter books, because "the 'certificate of witchcraft' endorsed a particular religion.")

Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs with both Liberty Counsel and Liberty Alliance Action socialist system will “any service deemed medically necessary or medically appropriate.”

It now appears, he says "that the... 'medically appropriate' umbrella is far more expansive than most Americans could have imagined." (What will be the co-pay for a dickiotomy?)

(photo: Michael Medved points to the anatomical area of potential oppression)

Digging a little deeper, Barber writes:

"I contacted the offices of Sen. Harry Reid, Rep. Charlie Rangel, Rep. Barney Frank and the House Subcommittee on Health. I asked, very simply, for ‘an assurance that the proposed healthcare plan will not allow taxpayer funded gender reassignment surgeries or hormone therapies.’ When faced with the bill’s relevant language, every staffer I spoke with either declined to answer or would neither confirm nor deny that such procedures would be covered.”

Obviously, there's a Cone of Silence around the conspiracy against keeping your own junk the secret plan to have it reassigned to someone favored by the regime if Obama and his socialists have their way.

We have taxpayer-funded abortion, health care rationing for the elderly and infirm, and vaccination interventions in your living room. ...

But half the fun is in finding out what other gems it holds. Forced abortion? Compulsory sterilization? Well, maybe not yet, but is it really that much of a stretch.

"To force Americans, against their conscience, to fund abortion on demand and to facilitate gender confusion by subsidizing the elective practice of genital ‘sex-change’ mutilation is unconscionable."

As always, Michael Medved put his moral and intellectual credibility on the line by supporting this. He's a man of great faith, and the most moral and intellectual talk radio host we can think of (right now) so we know it must be pure and true.

(On that genital reassignment: could a person trade up? if you get our drift... just askin').

March 15, 2011

And another great day in this greatest nation on God’s green earth…..but it is also a great day and it will be a great week for our ally across the Pacific Ocean in Japan.

And the news that’s come down, that literally within the last couple hours, that apparently the hysteria that had been generated, it seems to me largely by activists, the hysteria about nuclear plants that were supposed to blow up. Well they’re not going to blow up. Of course no nuclear plant ever would blow up, they don’t have explodable material in them that’s the way they’re designed.

That’s not what they’re supposed to do. What actually has been certified by the International Atomic Energy Agency… The International Atomic Energy Agency, a division of the United Nations has taken a look at the reactors….the reactors that they were worried about and said “OK, everything’s under control…no problem.” It is very good news, it means there will be no huge nuclear accident. Nothing so devastating as that Three Mile Island “disaster” in the United States. Which as you know contaminated huge numbers of what? People? No! They have looked for 30 years to try to find even one individual, one individual who was damaged by Three Mile Island, they have found no one. It was actually good for the fish. It did no damage.

For people to obsess about these nuclear reactors as if that were the real problem, that is an obscenity, it shows the depravity, it seems to me, of the left, it shows their desire to use anything to push their anti industrial anti western agenda.

Will Michael take his broadcast down wind to show how silly and depraved all us lefties are about nuclear power? (hint: no.) (H/T to RR)

February 20, 2011

OK, maybe it's more accurate to say: Medved sneaked up on the Big Guy and kicked him in the knee.

"I love Rush," Medved told CNN's Howard Kurtz, "I'm grateful to him and I admire him greatly, but it's a terrible mistake to say on the air again and again, that this [the bad economy] is on purpose, because what happens if the economy does turn around? Will that be on purpose too?"

September 05, 2010

Billly
Bob (whose name is neither
Billly nor Bob) worked long in
the Seattle radiomarket
wearing a suit. He says
the experience broadened his worldview, showed him the error of his
ways, revealed God's love, and greatly diminished possibilities for
future employment.

Glenn Beck and
Rush Limbaugh are portrayed in even local media, as these huge
celebrities that get incredible, blockbuster ratings. But allow me to
enter some local facts into the debate.

Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are
on the same station in Seattle, KTTH which has Beck in the early morning, followed by Titan of Talk, Rush Limbaugh then the supposedly incredibly popular "local" host
Michael Medved on from noon to 3p.

Oh, and don't forget, at night, they have Dr.
Laura, who surely must be wildly popular. Imagine that! One station has a
monopoly on all the big right-wing talkers. Their ratings must be through the
roof, right?

Well, when it comes to total listeners (something Arbitron
refers to as 'cume') KTTH isn't exactly setting the world on fire. They
are ranked 24th. Let me say that more clearly: TWENTY-FUCKING FOURTH! Not
only are KIRO-AM and FM ahead of KTTH. But so is KOMO. So is KJR-AM.
So are three country stations. So are two jazz stations. So are the NPR
stations. So is Jack and KUBE and Star and the Wolf and the Mountain and Kiss
and Warm and Movin' and the End and Christa Ministries and Classic KING and the
Funky Monkey and, well, just about everybody.

Yet, the media narrative
remains. The so called "liberal" media would have you believe
these "rodeo clowns" (Glenn Beck's self-description, not mine) are
ratings winners. In reality, they are all on one station and that station
is in the proverbial ratings shit-can. So my question, Billy, is why do people
in the media and on websites and nitwits like you keep giving them so much
attention? Signed, Ed Frebert

KVI am 570 KHz Visit the burnt-out husk of one of the seminal right-wing talkers in all the land. Here's where once trilled the reactionary tones of Rush Limbaugh, John Carlson, Kirby Wilbur, Mike Siegel, Peter Weissbach, Floyd Brown, Dinky Donkey, and Bryan Suits.
Now it's Top 40 hits from the '60's & '70's aimed at that diminishing crowd who still remembers them and can still hear.

KTTH am 770 KHzRight wing home of local, and a whole bunch of syndicated righties such as Glennn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Medved, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lars Larsony, and for an hour a day: live & local David Boze.